Mardi Gras in Mobile, ca. 1940

The Knights of Revelry, one of Mobile's oldest mystic societies, during a Mardi Gras parade, ca. 1940.

Parade float carrying costumed riders moves through a crowded city street lined with spectators.
Courtesy of the S. Blake McNeely Collection, the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
Parade float carrying costumed riders moves through a crowded city street lined with spectators.